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Didn't mean to fall in love on a B2 Visa

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Random Sam   0

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The normal story, wasn't looking for love on my bicycle trip across the USA, until I found the one. She proposed to me and then in the final month of touring the USA we got married in Vegas.

I now know I shouldn't of got married on a B2 visa, but the time and everything just seemed to fit. What love can do to you!

What should we do now as I have only one month left on my visa? Should I overstay my B2 visa and become an alien, or should I go home and apply for a K3 visa? My last intention was to live in America, but now, it seems like that's what we both want.

Thanks for your time.

03/05/2011 - Met my wife to be in a Hipster Bar in Williamsburg, NYC.

04/05/2011 - Started cycling across America.

21/09/2011 - Wife to be came out to visit me for a 2 week trip.

30/09/2011 - Married in Vegas.

01/12/2011 - Sent off i130, i485, i765

06/12/2011 - NOA-1 Text Message and email sent for all forms

12/12/2011 - NOA-1 letters came for all forms

21/12/2011 - BioMetrics letter - Scheduled for 20/01/2012

20/01/2012 - BioMetric taken

17/02/2012 - Application For Employment - Card/ Document Production.

30/04/2012 - Interview - Passed :)

09/05/2012 - Green Card in hand.

Now, time to find work :-( Rats, back to the real world.

Inky Grand Master

Inky   1,111

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Well applying for a K-3 is a waste of time because its closed at the NVC.

You had no intention of coming on the B2 and getting married and staying so... why would you not just apply to adjust your status? Your situation suits it.

Follow the guide for adjusting status inside the USA.

http://www.visajourney.com/content/i130guide2

Once you have the green card you can go home close up your things there and bring your belongings back, but you have to wait for the green card! do not leave before you have it in your hand.

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Your I-129f was approved in 5 days from your NOA1 date.

Your interview took 67 days from your I-129F NOA1 date.

AOS was approved in 2 months and 8 days without interview.

ROC was approved in 3 months and 2 days without interview.

I am a Citizen of the United States of America. 04/16/13

JoannaV Proficient

JoannaV   174

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If the two of you have decided that your future lies in the US, then you have two choices: file for Adjustment of Status or apply for a CR-1 visa.

You can find information on both of these options in the Guides on Visajourney, and also by looking on the USCIS website. For adjustment of status you stay in America and apply from here. Ideally you would apply before your B2 visa expires. You will not be able to leave the US for a few months, nor will you be able to work whilst here.

For CR-1 visa, you will return to your home country and eventually interview at the Embassy there before acquiring your visa, which allows you to move to America and immediately start working. If you have a Vistor's visa which allows you to visit America, then you can visit whilst waiting.

It will be useful to know what country you are from. Some countries are harder to get a visa from than others, in which case that would make the AOS option even more appealing.

AOS is probably the best option, unless you have business you need to finish up back home now. Also, you will need certain documents, such as your birth certificate, so if that's back home and no-one can send it to you then you will have to go get it, in which case CR-1 is your option.

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"It will be useful to know what country you are from. Some countries are harder to get a visa from than others, in which case that would make the AOS option even more appealing."

I'm from the United Kingdom and have 1 month left on my B2 6month visa. So you think I should stay put in the States and fill out the AOS. I must say, i'm a tad scared of staying over my VISA date. But I do have the money to live here for about a year without working.

03/05/2011 - Met my wife to be in a Hipster Bar in Williamsburg, NYC.

04/05/2011 - Started cycling across America.

21/09/2011 - Wife to be came out to visit me for a 2 week trip.

30/09/2011 - Married in Vegas.

01/12/2011 - Sent off i130, i485, i765

06/12/2011 - NOA-1 Text Message and email sent for all forms

12/12/2011 - NOA-1 letters came for all forms

21/12/2011 - BioMetrics letter - Scheduled for 20/01/2012

20/01/2012 - BioMetric taken

17/02/2012 - Application For Employment - Card/ Document Production.

30/04/2012 - Interview - Passed :)

09/05/2012 - Green Card in hand.

Now, time to find work :-( Rats, back to the real world.

Inky Grand Master

Inky   1,111

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"It will be useful to know what country you are from. Some countries are harder to get a visa from than others, in which case that would make the AOS option even more appealing."

I'm from the United Kingdom and have 1 month left on my B2 6month visa. So you think I should stay put in the States and fill out the AOS. I must say, i'm a tad scared of staying over my VISA date. But I do have the money to live here for about a year without working.

Apply now do it quickly and then you will be status pending while you are waiting on the process.

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Your I-129f was approved in 5 days from your NOA1 date.

Your interview took 67 days from your I-129F NOA1 date.

AOS was approved in 2 months and 8 days without interview.

ROC was approved in 3 months and 2 days without interview.

I am a Citizen of the United States of America. 04/16/13

Random Sam Rookie

Random Sam   0

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Thanks for all your help guys, we'll get on the case straight away.

03/05/2011 - Met my wife to be in a Hipster Bar in Williamsburg, NYC.

04/05/2011 - Started cycling across America.

21/09/2011 - Wife to be came out to visit me for a 2 week trip.

30/09/2011 - Married in Vegas.

01/12/2011 - Sent off i130, i485, i765

06/12/2011 - NOA-1 Text Message and email sent for all forms

12/12/2011 - NOA-1 letters came for all forms

21/12/2011 - BioMetrics letter - Scheduled for 20/01/2012

20/01/2012 - BioMetric taken

17/02/2012 - Application For Employment - Card/ Document Production.

30/04/2012 - Interview - Passed :)

09/05/2012 - Green Card in hand.

Now, time to find work :-( Rats, back to the real world.

Rebecca Jo Experienced

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The first thing you want to do is make sure which country you want to live in.

Really really really really think hard about this.

Our journey together on this earth has come to an end.

I will see you one day again, my love.

Brother Hesekiel Mentor

Brother Hesekiel   2,236

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You will need your birth certificate for AOS. Hope somebody can get it for you and mail it to you.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

President Teddy Roosevelt on Columbus Day 1915

 
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